Improvement in brackets for water-conductors



UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

LEONARD B. HILL, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK, ASSIGN OR TO HIMSELF AND PETERCLARK, OF SANIE PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRACKETS FOR WATER'CONDUCTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,309, dated June 27,1871.

ing drawing forming a part of this specification,

in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the bracket, with apart broken away, illustrating the improvements.

section through line No. 1 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross-section throughline No. 2 in Fig. 2.

My invention relates to the combination of locking devices with thegrasping-arm of the bracket, which lookin g devices are each attached toits respective arm, and act mutually to hold the said arms in theirproper positions secure around the conductor, which they are to graspand support 5 the object of this invention being to produce a bracketwhich will be self-locking and firm in its grasp on the conductor.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe it in reference to the drawing and the letters ofreference marked thereon, the same letters indicating like part-s.

The bracket consists, in part, of the two grasping-arms A and B and thespike O, which are old and already in use. To the grasping-arm A is madethe spike C, or its equivalent Cf, by which the bracket is secured tothe building 5 if of brick the spike O would be preferred, and if ofwood I would prefer to use the screw-form C with the pieced angle-pieceC, shown in Fig. 3. In the body D 'of the A C portion of the bracket Imake the opening O, Fig. 3, which leads to the catching-lip a thatdepends downward from the body D, and a recess, a', as shown in Figs. 1and 4. I also make in the body D, on the side opposite the lip a, abearing, b, preferred to be sloped, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, whichbearing-piece is made solid with the said body and placed below theentrance of the opening O, as shown. I also attach to the grasping-arm Bthe angle-piece E,

Fig. 2 is a vertical view of thei same from its upper side. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal which angle-piece E is intended to enter the opening O toill the same, as in Figs. l and 2. On

wthe extreme end of the angle E I make a catching-lip, c, and a recess,c', both of which are to correspond in forni and in relative positionwith the catching-lip t and recess a in the body D, as in Figs. 1 and 4.A portion, d, of the lower surface of the angle-piece E is made slopingor of other form to correspond with the bearing b in the body D, asshown in Fig. 3.

The manner in which the grasping-arm B is connected with the portions AO is as follows: The grasping-arm B, with its angle-piece E, is tiltedup so that the angle-piece will stand at an angle with the plane of thebody D of its mate, as shown in Fig. 4 by dotted lines, when the saidangle-piece is made to enter the opening O in the body D and is thrusttherein, so that the catchinglip c of the angle-piece E will pass thelip a of the body to enter the recess a', when the arm B and itsangle-piece E will be pressed down to cause the surface d of theangle-piece E to bear on the bearing b of the body l), as shown in Figs.l and 4, in which position the 'grasping-arm B will be securely andrigidly locked to its mate A.

rlhe conductor to be grasped and supported is to be placed in the arm Aprevious to the locking of the arm B with the said arm A, as has beendescribed.

By the improvements of my invention conductor-brackets, when made ofmalleable iron, can be furnished more cheaply than the common hook, andconductors can be readily hung to y buildings or removed from the samewithout being injured in the least in either process.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The combination ofthe grasping-arm A, spike C or equivalent, asdescribed, and body D provided with the opening O, lip a, recess a', andbearing b with the grasping-arm B, and anglepiece E provided with thelip c, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LEONARD B. HILL. Witnesses:

ALEX. SELKIRK, CEAS. SELKIRE.

